Who should police corporate misconduct and how should it be policed? In recent years, the Department of Justice has resolved investigations of dozens of Fortune 500 companies via deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, where, instead of facing criminal charges, these companies become regulated by outside agencies. Increasingly, the threat of prosecution and such prosecution agreements is being used to regulate corporate behavior. This practice has been sharply criticized on numerous fronts: agreements are too lenient, there is too little oversight of these agreements, aMeer lezen...

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"Prosecutors in the Boardroom...supplies a wealth of empirical data about contemporary corporate law enforcement policy...[and] demonstrates what happens when well-intentioned, intelligent, dedicated law enforcement agents are freed from the constraints of liberalism."-John Hasnas,Regulation "An essential collection; the power of prosecutors in a post-Arthur Andersen world demands thoughtful and scholarly attention and gets it in this invaluable volume." -Paul Clement,former Solicitor General of the United States "A must-read for practitioners and scholars wrestling with the challenges of corporate crime and punishment." -James Comey,former Deputy Attorney General of the United StatesMeer lezen...